BAGHDAD, April 6, 2007
27 Die In Chlorine Bomb Attack In Iraq
Suicide Bomber Crashes Truck Loaded With Toxic Chlorine Gas Into Police Checkpoint In Ramadi
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An Iraqi holds a British soldier's helmet after a roadside bomb killed four soliders on patrol in Basra, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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U.S. troops patrol a market in Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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Workers try to fix damage to an oil pipeline caused by planted explosives near the city of Safwan, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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A car burns after a car bombing near a Sunni Muslim television station in Baghdad, April 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Asaad Mouhsin)
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Interactive Iraq: 4 Years Later The conflict wears on as the nation struggles to rebuild.
Al Qaeda in Iraq, which asserts fealty to Osama bin Laden, was believed to be hitting back at Sunni tribesmen who are banding together to expel foreign fighters from their territory.
An Internet posting by the Islamic Army in Iraq, meanwhile, exposed a growing and deep split among even the most radical Sunni groups, who are linked under the umbrella organization called the Islamic State of Iraq.
And despite a hail of mortar rounds that wounded about a dozen people nationwide, the number of civilians reported killed or found dead was among the lowest — 19 — since the U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown began more than seven weeks ago.
The bombing in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and an insurgent stronghold, left many people nearby with breathing difficulties and some need hospitalization, according to police Maj. Jubair Rashid al-Nayef. Most were released in about 30 minutes. Thirty other victims were hospitalized with wounds from the explosion.
Police opened fire as the suicide bomber sped toward a checkpoint three miles west of the city, police Col. Tariq al-Dulaimi said. Nearby buildings were heavily damaged and police were searching the rubble for more victims.
In the first known chlorine attack on Jan. 28, also in Ramadi. Pentagon officials first disclosed the attack that killed at least 16 people. In low exposures, chlorine irritates the respiratory system, eyes and skin. Higher levels can lead to accumulation of fluid in the lungs and other symptoms. Death is possible with heavy exposure, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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- Chemical warfare now, Nucleer warfare as soon as Iran completes its 'energy' program. Oh!!! Excuse me!!!! I forgot... Iran and the extremist sympathizers only want electricity from their program but they want to do it themselves. They don't want anyone else doing it for them, even for free. Wonder why????
Oh1 Thats right I am out of my mind and delerious. - Reply to this comment
- Makes perfect sense to me to hate them all.
Posted by RandalDS at 03:02 PM : Apr 06, 2007
The passions of youth have been long gone in my life. I don't hate anyone, it seems like a waste of energy. Doesn't bother the intended target, but sure can cause havoc in a person's life if taken to the extreme.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 03:40 PM : Apr 06, 2007
Well at more then 50 I'm hardly a youth, but I find the passions of youth are what keep me going. Sure taken to it's extreme hate hurts the hater more then the hated, but to me it gives me purpose. Bush and Cheney and their various minions are so easy to hate too, mostly because they actually are guilty of horrendous crimes, esp mass murder, so it's not like I'm making up things to hate them for. In their case hate is not just a good thing, for me it's a requirement. - Reply to this comment
- Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here?
Come on Bush, Americans love death, torture, and violence! How dare you let them have all the fun.
Bring the war to America! - Reply to this comment
- Makes perfect sense to me to hate them all.
Posted by RandalDS at 03:02 PM : Apr 06, 2007
The passions of youth have been long gone in my life. I don't hate anyone, it seems like a waste of energy. Doesn't bother the intended target, but sure can cause havoc in a person's life if taken to the extreme.
I consider George Bush to be the most corrupt and incompetent president in US history. But, it is not an emotional issue. It is based on his demonstrated record of corruption and incompetency.
Which actually amuses me when people claim I hate Bush. They obviously do not know me. And, they also obviously obsess about hatred. Must be difficult to go through life fixated on hatred.
Don't waste your energy hating Bush or any of his corrupt cronies, including his paid trolls, they aren't worth it. - Reply to this comment
- Are you so naive not to realize a tiny minority of insurgents can screw up an entire country?
Posted by notblue at 02:51 PM : Apr 06, 2007
Naive?
If, after five years, a "tiny minority of insurgents" are still "*** up a country," then it is obvious the "tiny minority" isn't so tiny.
It appears you are not only naive, you are delusional. As I recall, the Bush administration recently demanded additional money and troops to quell this "tiny minority."
Which demonstrates the claim it is a "tiny minority" is just as bogus as all the other claims made by the Bush administration.
The "facts on the ground" speak for the Iraqi people. Neither you, George Bush, Israel, or anyone else can refute those facts. - Reply to this comment
- Or is it just the tired old hate Bush thing controlling what little original thought you display?
Posted by notblue at 02:51 PM : Apr 06, 2007
I never understood why right wingers think it's some sort of shot for others to hate Bush? I hate Bush. I hate Cheney too. I hate them the same way I hate Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Jeffery Dahmer and Ted Bundy. On a larger more appropriate scale I also hate Hitler, Mussolini and Pol Pot. All of these were mass murderers, some on a small scale and some on a historic scale, but mass murderers all. So are Bush and Cheney, though they're somewhere in-between so far with thier own body count. What's so surprising about hating evil and evil men? Makes perfect sense to me to hate them all. - Reply to this comment
- You can always tell when the demos (donkeys) start crawling out of the wood work!! They start harping on President Bush! I just wish they knew their history better!! Vietnam was Kennedy and Johnson's war (democrats)... Nixon (republican) ended it!! I'm from that era and what happened with that war ... how it ended is the very reason terrorist thought they could bomb us with impunity!! Then Clinton proved to them even more we wouldn't DO anything if attacked (do I need to list all 8 of THOSE attacks). So go ahead, donkeys, let's prove them right again! I just have a hard time with all you opinionated people when having all volunteer troops doesn't require ANTYHING from you but your support!! Remember two things ... (1) If we, the American people, had moved sooner, we may have saved 6 million lives back in the 40's (2) We won the cold war because we stood our ground and were as good as our word!! And one more thing on WWII ... we STILL have troops in Germany and Japan ... that's over 60 years ... and you're mouthing about 4!! Get a life ... or better yet go to work for the media!!
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- Tucker, as usual you didn't have an intelligent response. And since you only get your facts from CBS and the rest of the leftwing propoganda outlets I can see why your brainwashing is so complete. Have you ever had an original idea? Sadly it doesn't seem so. Are you so naive not to realize a tiny minority of insurgents can screw up an entire country? Or is it just the tired old hate Bush thing controlling what little original thought you display?
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- Tucker, what qualifies you to speak for the IRAQI people???
Posted by notblue at 02:40 PM : Apr 06, 2007
The "facts on the ground" speak for the Iraqi people.
They need no other spokesman. - Reply to this comment
- Tucker, what qualifies you to speak for the IRAQI people??? Which Iraqi people? The minority Sunnis who tortured and murdered the Majority Shia under Sadam? Al Qauda militants? Iranian bomb makers? The tiny minority of suicide bombers? Or the twelve million that voted for democracy for the first time in 35 years? Which Iraqi's are you speaking for????
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- Whack-a-mole. It is a military truism that an occupying army cannot win against a popular insurgency in the insurgents homeland without slaughtering the insurgents, civilians too, in mass numbers (which we or any civilized nation certainly will not do). Besides this we are not just trying to stop one popular insurgency we're trying to stop two of them, one Sunni and one Shiite. This was was unwinnable before it started and if Bush or Cheney or any of their brain-dead cronies bothered to ever read any kind of history book (or had at least a LITTLE commonsense) they would have known this. The stupidity of even starting this war is breathtaking.
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- Now even a simple minded Nazi, like yourself, should be able to understand that. How can you fools just continue to believe Bush when EVEN our OWN military tells you he LIED to you? Even the poor German's weren't as bad as you losers. Sieg Heil Y'all. ROFLMAO Dumb as a box of rocks!!
Posted by MCVet at 02:07 PM : Apr 06, 2007
*ROFL*
I totally agree with your comment.
The only people dumber than Bush trolls are the people who pay them to post their drivel. - Reply to this comment
- The militants are now using deadly chlorine gas, it exemplifies that the bad guys will use anything that they can get there hands on, no regard for innocent civilians, no regard for the use of chemicals, no regard for civilized behavior just expanding barbarism. Is it time to retreat or fight this evil?
Posted by notblue at 01:20 PM : Apr 06, 2007
Who said anything about retreat. You Fascist are UNBELIEVABLE. This is a CIVIL WAR you MORON and now we KNOW we invaded a nation, started a Civil War and that nation had NO CONNECTION to Bin Laden. In other words we're fighting in the WRONG Country. Now even a simple minded Nazi, like yourself, should be able to understand that. How can you fools just continue to believe Bush when EVEN our OWN military tells you he LIED to you? Even the poor German's weren't as bad as you losers. Sieg Heil Y'all. ROFLMAO Dumb as a box of rocks!! - Reply to this comment
- The Iraqi people have clearly decided they do not support Bush's idea of "democracy." There is no point in continuing to use US forces as cannon fodder or bomb detectors for people who do not want our form of government.
But, then again, the majority of Americans do not want George Bush's form of government, either. So, who can blame the Iraqis for rejecting the "Bush doctrine"? - Reply to this comment
- The militants are now using deadly chlorine gas, it exemplifies that the bad guys will use anything that they can get there hands on, no regard for innocent civilians, no regard for the use of chemicals, no regard for civilized behavior just expanding barbarism. Is it time to retreat or fight this evil?
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- bluestardad Where at in Indiana?
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- WAS THIS BOMB THERE WHEN McCAIN WAS THERE? PENSE SAID THIS PLACE IS JUST LIKE ANY INDIANA MARKET! I LIVE IN INDIANA NEVER SEEN A CHLORINE BOMB!
Now the Prudent Person would ask, Why are we in Iraq even NOW? Maybe we have been drawn there for the interest of things other than American National Security Interest? If this can be proven then America can and should arrest Bush and Cheney their Entire Administration and put them on trial for War Crimes just like we did the Nazis after WWII.
If you follow the money trail you will find that most of those elected officials who support the war in Iraq are under the influence of AIPAC.
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm
Now here is the real kicker! President Bush is funding Al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! This is Impeachment and Treason! Here is the proof Read it!
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh
50 years of American involvement in the Middle East is enough. We Should get out of the entire Middle East! They have nothing worth one more American Life anywhere in the Middle East!
If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
The House Speakers email address: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
info@gop.com Here is the Republican Party email address too!
democraticparty@democrats.org Here is the Democratic Party email address also! - Reply to this comment
- CBS you are about 6 hours late on this story.
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